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Prayers to Mary and for the Dead?

"What are your beliefs about the Virgin Mary -- most particularly do you pray to her? Why do you pray for the departed? The Bible clearly says it is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgement." Answer
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Excerpts from The Orthodox Church
Written by the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia   

  • Holy Tradition: The Source of the Orthodox Faith
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  • The Inner Meaning of Tradition
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  • The Outward Forms
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  • God and Humankind
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  • God in Trinity
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  • The Human Person: Our Creation, Our Vocation, Our Failure
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  • Jesus Christ
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  • The Holy Spirit
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  • 'Partakers of the Divine Nature'
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  • The Church of God
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  • God and His Church
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  • The Unity and Infallibility of the Church
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  • Bishops, Laity, Councils
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  • The Living and the Dead: The Mother of God
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  • The Last Things
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  • Orthodox Worship, I: The Earthly Heaven
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  • Doctrine and Worship
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  • The Outward Setting of the Services
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  • Orthodox Worship, II: The Sacraments
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  • Baptism
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  • Chrismation
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  • The Eucharist
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  • Repentance
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  • Holy Orders
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  • Marriage
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  • Anointing of the Sick
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  • Orthodox Worship, III: Feasts, Fasts, and Private Prayer
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  • The Christian Year
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  • Private Prayer
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  • The Orthodox Church and the Reunion of Christians
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  • 'One Holy Catholic Church'
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  • Orthodox Relations With Other Communions
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  • Learning From One Another
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